LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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“Whenever I see John, he wears that same coat"He and That refers to?
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Temporal and Personal deixis
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Personal and Discourse Deixis
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -An example would be “here” and “now” in the sentence “You read this here and now”. “Here” is an example of spatial deixis, and “now” is an example of temporal deixis.
Detailed explanation-2: -Personal deixis, or person deixis, concerns itself with the grammatical persons involved in an utterance: (1) those directly involved (e.g. the speaker, the addressee), (2) those not directly involved (e.g. those who hear the utterance but who are not being directly addressed), and (3) those mentioned in the utterance.
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